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 "title": "Louanges d’Elle",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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  "year": 1901,
  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "—O Muse of mine that sittest orientally",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With a green emerald snake about the waist of thee,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With henna-tinted feet, and almond eyes that dream,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Put down the opium-pipe of jade and ivory,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For she that is most fair is fain to hear thy song:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Awake, O Muse, and sing her praises solemnly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That to the laughing heart of California",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hath added all the grace of France and Italy;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She who, to put to sleep my pitiless ennuis",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is come from distant Paris and from Varsovie;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Athens is in her heart, and Paris in her eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dear European angel from beyond the sea!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "—There is no use to sing; she is not to be sung;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What mortal praise can come unto her glory near?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And she hath quite forgot her natal English tongue;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She is too far, too high, thy languid praise to hear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Too delicate, too strange, too wicked, too divine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Too heavenly, too sweet, too bad, too fair, too dear!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“N’est-elle pas l’oasis où tu rêves et la gourde",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Où tu humes à longs traits le vin du souvenir?”",
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